This years Team Award winner is the Integrated Corn Ethanol Co-Products Team. This team is composed of more than 40 researchers representing five departments within Agriculture, including Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Agricultural Economics, Agronomy, Animal Sciences and Botany and Plant Pathology.

Agricultural and Biological Engineering members are: Seth Bossingham, Dennis Buckmaster, Clairmont Clementson, Anoldo Garcia, Klein Ileleji, Teshome Jiru, Don Jones, A.R.P. Kingsly, Dirk Maier, Chad Martin, Kyle Probst, Shannon Snyder and Richard Stroshine.

The Integrated Corn Ethanol Co-Products Team, an interdisciplinary applied research and Extension rapid response effort, addresses issues surrounding the increasing production of DDGS from the corn ethanol industry, including the DDGS production process, impacts of DDGS as an animal feed ingredient, and economics of its use. The team has created a series of Bioenergy Extension publications (http://extension.purdue.edu/renewable-energy/bioenergy.shtml), sponsored several seminars and a conference for stakeholders, and written numerous refereed journal articles. The team’s effort is supported by partnership with The Andersons Clymers Ethanol (a local ethanol plant) and the Indiana State Department of Agriculture.

"Many Hands, Many Minds, One Goal!"